Current & Emerging Threats (C-ET)

Ebola 7 links

• Ebola Gap Analysis
• Ebola: Responding to a Growing Crisis (webinar)
• ASPR TRACIE: Healthcare System Readiness for Highly Pathogenic Infectious Diseases
• National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education
• World Health Organization (WHO): Ebola Virus Disease
• ASPR TRACIE: Highly Pathogenic Infectious Disease Exercise Planning for Front Line Facilities
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Topic Collection: VHF/Ebola

Hepatitis A 2 links

• Widespread person-to-person outbreaks of hepatitis A across the United States
• Hepatitis A Information from the CDC

CDC 8 links

• Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings
• Dialysis Safety: Core Interventions
• Dialysis Safety Index
• Dialysis: Reducing Infections and Changing Culture (podcast)
• Discussion of Respiratory Protection Recommendations for Measles, Varicella, and Disseminated Zoster
• Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel
• Making Dialysis Safer for Patients: Tools to Prevent Infections in Hemodialysis (video)
• Transmission-Based Precautions

CMS 2 links

• ESRD Quality Incentive Program
• Interpretive Guidance of the ESRD Conditions for Coverage for Dialysis Facilities (304 pages)

Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection 3 links

• Environmental Surface Disinfection in Dialysis Facilities: Notes for Clinical Managers
• Checklist: Dialysis Station Routine Disinfection
• Core Strategies of Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection in Hospitals

National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) 1 link

• NHSN Tracking Infections in Outpatient Dialysis Facilities

Publications 6 links

• Essential Components of an Infection Prevention Program for Outpatient Hemodialysis Centers
• 100% Use of Infection Control Procedures in Hemodialysis Facilities: Call to Action
• Evolving Role of the Medical Director of a Dialysis Facility
• Infection control guidelines in hemodialysis facilities
• Leading the Dialysis Unit: Role of the Medical Director
• Maintaining Safety in the Dialysis Facility

Safe Injection Practices 4 links

• CDC Injection Safety
• Hemodialysis Injectable Medication Preparation Audit Tool
• Medication Safety Principles and Practice in CKD
• Safe Injection Practices - How to Do It Right (video)

Water Safety in Dialysis 3 links

• ANSI/AAMI/ISO 23500-5:2019; Preparation and quality management of fluids for haemodialysis and related therapies—Part 5: Quality of dialysis fluid for haemodialysis and related therapies
• Water Use in Hemodialysis
• What Medical Directors Need to Know about Dialysis Facility Water Management

Vascular Access Infections 6 links

• Prevention of Bloodstream Infections in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis
• CDC Approach to BSI Prevention in Dialysis Facilities (i.e., the Core Interventions)
• Catheter-related blood stream infections in hemodialysis patients: a prospective cohort study
• Dialysis BSI Prevention Collaborative
• NHSN Tracking Infections in Outpatient Dialysis Facilities
• CDC Dialysis Safety: Core Interventions

Blood Culture Collection 1 link

• Standardization of Blood Culture Collection for Patients Receiving In-Center Hemodialysis

Environmental Decontamination 13 links

• Surface Disinfection - policy example
• Dialysis Cleaning/Disinfection Template and Key
• Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Infections Among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients, 2001
• Environmental Surface Disinfection in Dialysis Facilities: Notes for Clinical Managers
• Days Since Last Bloodstream Infection Poster
• iPads, droids, and bugs: Infection prevention for mobile handheld devices at the point of care
• Continuing Education "Infection Prevention in Dialysis Settings" Training Course
• Guide to the Elimination of Infections in Hemodialysis, 2010
• Preventing Bloodstream Infections in Outpatient Hemodialysis: Best Practices for Dialysis Staff
• What You Should Know About Infectious Diseases: A Guide for Hemodialysis Patients and their Families
• Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008
• Dialysis Station Routine Disinfection Checklist
• Dialysis Station Routine Disinfection Audit Tool

General Infection Prevention 9 links

• The Infection Prevention and Control in Dialysis Settings (2022)
• Excess Deaths Attributable to Influenza-Like Illness in the ESRD Population
• Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)
• 4 Ways to Get Ahead of Sepsis
• Put Together the Pieces to Prevent Infections in Dialysis Patients
• Injection Safety: Medication Preparation & Administration Audit Tool
• Hemodialysis Injection Safety: Medication Administration Checklist
• Hemodialysis Injection Safety: Medication Preparation Checklist
• Safe Injection Practices - How to Do It Right

Hand Hygiene 19 links

• Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance Rates in the Haemodialysis Setting: More Thank Just More Hand Rubs
• iScrub App
• Global Handwashing Day: Oct. 15
• Hand Washing Stops Infections, So Why Do Health Care Workers Skip It?
• Your Roadmap to Engaging Patients & Families in Hand Hygiene
• Infection Control Today - National Handwashing Awareness Week
• Henry the Hand Foundation
• National Hand Washing Awareness Week
• International Infection Prevention Week: Oct. 15-21
• Clean Hands Count - Video
• Hand Hygiene - Education Courses
• How to Make Handwashing a Fun Experience For Patients in the Dialysis Unit
• Handwashing: Clean Hands Save Lives
• Hand Hygiene in Outpatient and Home-based Care and Long-term Care Facilities
• Bedside hand hygiene improves when extra healthcare workers are present, study shows
• Hopkins Hands: Hand Hygiene at JHM
• Evidence-Based Approaches to Hand Hygiene: Best Practices for Collaboration
• Hand Hygiene Audit Tool
• Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings